Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foreign diplomats reported yesterday that Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Premier Chou En-lai have successfully crushed a plot to oust them from power in China led by Defense Minister Lin Piao...
Defender of the Faith concerns a World War II trainee (Jon Korkes) who practices a kind of coreligionist blackmail on his sergeant (David Ackroyd) to secure special privileges for the camp's Jewish contingent. Between the laughs and the plot twists lurks the question of where ethnic solidarity begins and ends. Epstein, the funniest of the tales, focuses on that universal malady, middle age. Epstein's morale has drooped in exact ratio to the sag of his wife Goldie's breasts. In the title role, Lou Jacobi, who looks rather like a Levantine Walter Cronkite, is hilarious...
Eliot House--Master Alan Heimert '49 is notoriously keen on culture, and this fall the New Harvard Players are working in conjunction with the Eliot House Drama Society on an adaptation of five of Shakespeare's comedies. The director, Larry Bergreen '72, feels that plot is over-emphasized in drama, so he has put together excerpt containing certain themes, characterizations and songs for a unique view of the comedies. Billy Bauman '72 composed original music for the production. It will play in Eliot House December...
Once this group is assembled, the play becomes a series of movements, each centered on one or two characters. There is no plot in the normal sense, no unity of action. The two homosexuals sit at one table, Violet and Steve at another, and the rest sit down at the bar, creating three self-enclosed worlds whose only thread of communication is Leona, moving about like some caged animal. Nervously boastful, muddled but penetrative. Leona is the great middle-aged screaming child who has been brought to perfection as an American theater type: a misty but lynx-eyed observer...
...play is very undramatic. Williams relies heavily on his uncanny ear for colloquial speech, and his ability to not let slip a false line. The script, however, has several defects. It does not develop the potentialities it introduces and misses the brutal impact it could have had if the plot and characters were more fully developed. Moreover, the long soliloquies which are made to carry most of the burden reveal little about the characters and at least one, Violet's, is totally superfluous. The play is hard to digest, but it does leave one with enough of its strange, bittersweet...